Includes writings by Dwight Macdonald, Robert Lowell, Ted Hughes, Anne Sexton, James Baldwin, and Iris Murdoch.

Table of Contents:

"Masscult and Midcult," by Dwight Macdonald"A New Year's Fable," by Vladimir Dudintsev"The Drinker," by Robert Lowell"Hawk Roosting," by Ted Hughes"Some Foreign Letters," by Anne Sexton"The Lovemaker," by Robert MezeyTwo poems by Salvatore Quasimodo"I," poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky; translated by George Reavey"Any Day Now," by James Baldwin"Is There a Sociologist in the House?" by George Lichtheim"The Hypnotized People," by Victor Anant "Metatheater," by Lionel Abel"Berlin Letter," by Ursula Brumm; translated by E.B. Ashton"London Letter," by Raymond Williams"Words and Ideas," by Iris Murdoch; review of Words and Things by Ernest Gellner"How It Strikes a Compatriot," by Richard Wollheim; review of The Glittering Coffin, by Dennis Potter"Poetry Chronicle," by John Hollander; reviewsSummer Knowledge, 1938-1958, by Delmore Schwartz Ko, or A Season on Earth, by Kenneth Koch"Fiction Chronicle," by R.W. Flint; reviews ofFalse Coin, by Harvey SwadosPursuit of the Prodigal, by Louis AuchinclossThe Body's Cage, by Benjamin DeMottThe Violent Bear It Away, by Flannery O'ConnorCorrespondence